DIY Farmhouse Table

Our DIY Farmhouse Table is made of pressure-treated pine with a cedar plank top to keep the cost low and make it suitable for outdoor use. Swap in pine for the pressure-treated and cedar, and you’ve got yourself an even cheaper indoor trestle table!

We did it.

We finally did it!

Our new deck is finished, furnished and ready for the big reveal.

Oh, but not today. Nope, I’m gonna make you wait a little longer for that post, ’cause I’m a jerk like that. 🙂

But I still have something good to show you.

It’s big.

It’s heavy.

And it’s made out of wood.

Yep, the last piece of the puzzle is our new DIY farmhouse table that we’ve been building for the last few months.

As usual, it started with Handan assaulting me with Pinterest pins on Skype messenger.

“My babes, I want a table like this one.” She’d write and then shoot me a Pin showing happy, smiley-faced DIYers building a trestle table.

I disliked them immediately and trusted them even less than I liked them.

Anyone who smiles that much is selling something.

And anyone who smiles that much while building something is full of shit.

Still, I took note of the design and filed it away in the monkey cage my brain.

And then, the inevitable…

“No, wait! I want it like this one!” Another Pin, another farmhouse table.

And again…

“Forget the previous photos. I really want it like this!” Yet another trestle table Pin.

With all the mind-changing that women does, how the heck am I supposed to keep it all straight? My head is like a Midwestern road. Information travels in one ear, and it’s a straight shot through to the other ear where the information promptly exits. Nice and simple (stupid) – in, out, and Bob’s your uncle!

It looks something like this:

Contrast this to Handan’s brain:

So of course, I designed the wrong table on Sketchup. I had to go back in and modify my plans.

And then I designed it wrong again, because I tried to make it too fancy.

But fancy wasn’t what we wanted. We wanted Simple Stupid. If you’re not familiar with our new motto, please read this post.

With that in mind, I finally designed an acceptable trestle table. With any luck, it would look something like this:

The herringbone table top was Handan’s idea. I think it would really set our farmhouse table apart. Or it would reduce me to a quivering mound of jelly. That remained to be seen.

To keep costs to a minimum, we decided to build the base from pressure-treated pine 4x4s instead of cedar. We reserved the cedar for the table top. For indoor use, I’d use straight pine for all of it.

Love the table! I can’t believe it there is someone in the world with a brain like mine – Handan! Don’t feel left out Greg, there is someone in the world with a brain like you – my Tony ,shame he doesn’t share your DIY skills.

Your blog writing, designing, building and geezering skills continually amaze me. I follow along your picture path shaking my head in wonder. My hubs has been planning to build a trestle table for a couple of years now. I am printing out your blog pages and bopping him on the head with them this afternoon. Thanks for sharing such great instructions!

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